[RC] Fw: ALERT USDA and APHIS NOW!!!==John Conyers HR 504 bill is already to committee!!! - Beccy FABISZAK
Subject: ALERT USDA and APHIS NOW!!!==John Conyers HR 504 bill is
already to committee!!!
This bill will allow the government
to control ALL transportation of horses, including our personal transportation
of our very own horses. This bill will only create more problems in regards to
horses being abandoned, starved to death as people have no means of humanely
putting them down when the animal is not adoptable. People are losing their jobs
and homes in this economy and unfortunately, horses are innocent victims of the
economic down turn. Beccy
Subject: FW: ALERT USDA and APHIS
NOW!!!==John Conyers HR 504 bill is already to
committee!!!
American Horse
Council Asks for Members to Call About Conyers/Burton and They'll Explain the
Act to Them Attention everyone: Please
contact your congressman by phone or e-mail to NOT SUPPORT THE HR 504
BILL Watch www.unitedhorsemensfront.com to contact your
congressman Darold Holden
dl-holden@xxxxxxxxxxx WASHINGTONDC, (AHC) On January 14, 2008 Representative John Conyers (D-MI)
re-introduced the Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2009 (H.R.504). The bill,
which has sixty cosponsors, was referred to the House Committee on the
Judiciary. Mr. Conyers is chairman of that committee.
This bill would
criminalize the possession, transport, sale, delivery, or receiving in
interstate or foreign commerce of a horse or horse meat with the intent that it
be used for human consumption. It would thus apply to the transport and sale of
horses for slaughter in the U.S. or to a foreign country.
Penalties would include fines and/or one year imprisonment for a first
offense or one involving five or fewer horses. Offenses involving more than five
horses or repeat offenders would face increased fines and/or up to three years
imprisonment. The bill introduced in the last Congress required that the
"Attorney General shall provide for the humane placement or other humane
disposition of any horse seized in connection with an offense under this
section." However, the bill introduced this year no longer contains this
requirement and makes no provisions for seized horses. The bill amends Title
18 of the U.S. Criminal Code, which deals with animal cruelty prohibitions.
If you have any questions about this bill, please call the AHC. The American
Horse Council 1616 H Street N.W. 7th Floor Washington, DC 20006 ( 202)296-4031
(202)296-1970 fax.
